Lessons Learned and Relearned

[Content Disclosure: The Book and therefore Poker; Publishing; New Ground & Old Lessons]I don't know why but blue brains seem to be in pain or confusion. -- meThere are hundreds of classic interpersonal struggles inherent in the process of creation...

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Sonoma Cats

[Content Disclosure: 100% Cats and nothing but Cats]It has been pointed out to me that my promised exposures of the Cats of Sonoma is overdue. So here is installment #1. That golden lovely up top is Tigr, one of Matthew's three domesticated kitties....

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Olde Friends

[Content Disclosure: Relationships, Love, Marriage, Life and General Human-like Goofiness]I'll wait for youAnd should I fall behindWait for me SpringsteinI have these two friends. I met them in 1971 when they were a new couple. They...

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View from the Back Seat

[Content Disclosure: Existential Angst 67%; Illness 9%]The most compelling metaphor I have ever heard about illness was told to me by my best friend Tom. This was in his sixth or seventh month of being sick and tired every day. He told me that being...

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Funeral for a Friend

[Content Disclosure: Life, Death, Synchronicity]She said, "There is no reasonand the truth is plain to see.'But I wandered through my playing cardsand would not let her beone of sixteen vestal virginswho were leaving for the coastand although my eyes...

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A Year of Living Tediously

[Content Disclosure: Illness, Malaise, Tedium, Life and a wee bit of poker]I should like to warn all readers that this post borders on complete self indulgence. Indeed, the only saving grace may be my own struggle with the level of personal disclosure...

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Coming Home to Mac

[Content Disclosure: Hardware 99%; Software 76%; Coming Home 100%: Matusow Biography 6%]On "first release day" January 24th, 1984; I was at the Apple store in Torrance, California to pick up my Mac. I was a Mac person until 2000, when I moved back to...

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Marriage

[Content Disclosure: 12.4% Social Commentary; 87% Societal Stupidity]On the eve of the state Supreme Court hearing in San Francisco on Proposition 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage, advocates on both sides describe the issue in similar high-stakes...

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Nostalgia

[Content Disclosure: Nostalgia 68%; Pondering 12%; Other 9%]"Nostalgia from the Greek nostos, 'a return home,' and algos, 'pain.' Pain of the return home. A very accurate description; despite their blurs, words can sometimes be so exact." -- Kim Stanley...

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